A small garrison of soldiers has returned to Historic Fort Hays, nearly 150 years after skirmishes with the Indians ceased and the outpost abandoned.
The soldiers don't move much, but they're there just the same, watching over the four original buildings that remain, as well as a newly refurbished visitor's center.
Of course, the fort inhabitants are little more than quarter-inch-thick plates of steel, silhouettes of solders, the quartermaster, post surgeon and even an officer's wife and child.
The silhouettes were installed last week, anchored into the ground with concrete.
"We'll anchor them down so they don't blow over," said Terry Marmet, director of historic sites for the Kansas State Historical Society. "So they don't get ripped over by the next wind storm that comes through."
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